The book consists of the texts by Sakai, which originally appeared in the JCRI’s annual reports from 2014 to 2019. In these texts, Sakai introspectively reviews the books on and by the cultural practitioners during the first half of the Meiji Period such as The Book of Tea by Tenshin Okakura and The Body of Beauty by Ryūsei Kishida. Those cultural practitioners were heavily influenced by Western art works and books, yet they reassessed Japanese art and culture with cool-headed perspectives.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Tenshin Okakura's The Book of Tea - A Deeper Look at Japan
Chapter 2: Reading Kazuo Okakura's My Father Tenshin Okakura
Chapter 3: Sōseki Natsume's Art Criticism
Chapter 4: A Story about Ryūsei Kishida and The Body of Beauty
Chapter 5 Yukio Yashiro's The Place of Japanese Art in the World and Archives
Chapter 6: Muneyoshi Yanagi - From William Blake to Myokonin (devout worshipper of Pure Land Buddhism and True Pure Land Buddhism)
Chapter 7: Kōun and Kōtaro Takamura - A Bridge of Tradition

Product Detail

Author	Tadayasu Sakai (Director of Setagaya Art Museum)
Publishing	The Japan Cultural Research Institute
Date of Issue	December 10, 2020
Number of Pages	87 panges, Monochrome
Number of Copies	300
Language	Japanese

￥1,000（tax included）